The Second Annual Vimeo Festival+ Awards Are Now Open For Submissions

YouTube gets an awful lot of press around here, and generally that's for good reason--they're huge. But Vimeo is also huge (just maybe not as big when placed side-by-side with YouTube). And Vimeo has a uniquely artistic community that is passionate, supportive, critical, and engaged. In advance of the second Vimeo Festival+ Awards, which celebrate "the most creative and original videos online and the individuals that make them," Vimeo has put out the call for submissions.

The Vimeo Festival+ Awards are more than just an honor. They also come with Grants of $5000 to all the category winners and $25,000 for the Grand Prize winner.

"Since our inaugural event, we have watched online video explode into a primary medium for new talent discovery," said Jeremy Boxer, Director of the Vimeo Festival + Awards. "More and more creators earn visibility, credibility and, ultimately, work by showcasing their videos online. We created the Vimeo Festival + Awards to celebrate the best of the best of these videos.”

Filmmakers are not only allowed to submit their own works, they're encouraged to do so.

The Vimeo Festival+ Awards

This year there are a few new categories as well, to represent the ever growing and shifting online video landscape. Here's a full list of the award categories:

Jeremy Scott is the founder of The Viral Orchard, an Internet marketing firm offering content writing and development services, viral marketing consulting, and SEO services. Jeremy writes constantly, loves online video, and enjoys helping small businesses succeed in any way he can.